{"id":356,"date":"2010-06-03T22:26:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T21:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2010-06-03T22:26:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T21:26:16","slug":"number-1s-of-2010-23-and-30-may-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Number 1s of 2010 – 23 and 30 May 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. \u00a0Partly that’s because the Roll Deep single managed three weeks at number one. \u00a0Partly it’s because I’ve been busy. \u00a0And partly it’s because the last couple of number one singles weren’t especially interesting. But never mind, some of the other new entries have more going for them.<\/p>\n

We’ll kick off with the number 1 single of 23 May, which is…<\/p>\n

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“Nothin’ on You” by B.o.B. featuring Bruno Mars.<\/strong> It’s the debut single for both acts, it’s another example of the way R&B pop is dominating the charts in 2010, it’s perfectly fine if you like that sort of thing, it does nothing much for me but I can see the appeal, and despite racking my brains, I can think of nothing else to say about it. \u00a0Oh, hold on… it’s not drenched in autotune. \u00a0That’s a plus.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, it’s about to develop at least one more trivia footnote. \u00a0Because although it got knocked off the top after a single week, the midweeks say it’s going back to the top on Sunday. \u00a0And that’s fairly unusual, at least.<\/p>\n

The record that knocked it off for a week is “Dirtee Disco” by Dizzee Rascal.<\/strong> For some unfathomable reason, his record company have released two versions of the video online: a one minute excerpt (half of which is the video intro before the song starts), and a 10 minute epic intercut with “commentary” by the artiste. \u00a0I can kind of understand not making your videos embeddable, to make sure you get the traffic – but not posting them at all <\/em>seems to defeat the point of making them.<\/p>\n

Since Dizzee apparently doesn’t want people to watch his videos, I won’t bother embedding either of the available versions, but you can watch the extended version here<\/a> if you really want. \u00a0It’s not one of his better efforts, to be honest – standard disco sample, generic rap over the top, you know the sort of thing. \u00a0It is, nonetheless, his 15th top 40 hit and his fourth number 1, to join “Dance Wiv Me”, “Bonkers” and “Holiday”.<\/p>\n

And now, the rest. \u00a0It’s been four weeks, and some of the charts have been quite active, so this is going to take a while…<\/p>\n